Τάναϊς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰenh₂-, found in many other river names, see also Doncaster, Danube, Dniester.

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Τᾰ́ναϊς • (Tánaïs) m (genitive Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δος); third declension

  1. Tanais, Don (a river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia)

Declension
Third declension of ὁ Τᾰ́νᾰῐ̈ς; τοῦ Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δος (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Τᾰ́νᾰῐ̈ς
ho Tánaïs
Genitive τοῦ Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δος
toû Tanáïdos
Dative τῷ Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δῐ
tôi Tanáïdi
Accusative τὸν Τᾰνᾰ́ῐ̈δᾰ
tòn Tanáïda
Vocative Τάναϊ
Tánaï
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
  • Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants
  • Greek: Τάναϊς (Tánaïs); Τανάιδας (Tanáidas)
  • Latin: Tanais

References
  • Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld: Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality, p. 97

Further reading
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,026
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